Stove.



No. 817,182. PATENTBD APR. 10, 1906.

F. D. MOSES.

STOVE. APPLICATION FILED AUG. 25, 1904.

' F. D. MOSES.

STOVB.

APPLICATION FILED AUG. 25f 1904.

PATENTED APR. 1.0, 1906.

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FRANK D. 'MOSES OF TRENTON, NEY JERSEY.

STOVE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented April 10, 1906.

Application tiled August 25,1904. Serial do 222.079.

To all wiz/mn it muy concern,.-

Be it known that I, FRANK D. MOSES, a citizen of the United States, residing at Trenton, in the county of Mercer and State of New Jersey, have invented certain new and useful lmprovements in Stoves, of which the following is a specification.

Cbjects of the presentinvention are to provide a' comparatively' inexpensive, economical, and reliable stove for heating water and which is equally well adapted for burning either gas, coke, or coal; to provide for conveniently converting the stove for the use of either gas, coke, or coal without requiring the use of tools of any sort or kind; to provide improved devices and attachments of such character that the stove may be adapted to consume either gas, coke, or coal by even an unskilful attendant and without necessarily requiring the removal of whatever coal or ashes may have collected, and to provide a coinbined gas and coal burner stove which may be used in the summer for heating waterwithout necessarily heati the apartment Where `it is located and Whilc may be used in the Winter-for example, in a' kitchen fitted with a as cooking-stove, where it will serve not o p to supply hot water, but also by burning coa to heat the kitchen.

To these and other ends hereinafter set forth the invention comprises the improvements to be presently described and finally pointed out in the clanns.

The nature, characteristic features, and scope of the invention will be more fully understood from the following description, taken in connection with the 'accompanying drawings', forming part hereof, and 1n i Thic 1-- Figure 1 is a view principally in elevation, illustrating a stove embodying features of the invention arranged to consume gas. Fig. 2 is a front view of the same drawn to a reduced scale. Fig. 3 is afront view of the stove arranged to consume coal. Fig. Ltis a top or plan view of one of the sections of the water-heater. Fig. 5 is a perspective view of a shutter which is adapted for ap lication and removal to the firin -door, andy ig. 6 is a sectional view illustrating a detachable gas connection.

In the drawings, 1 is a suitable shell, as of sheet iron, which is or may be internally lined. As shown, it is of cylindrical form; but that is At the base of the shell there is arranged a grate 2, upon which coal may be burned and beneath which and in the base ofthe stove there is an ash-pit This shell is provided with a iiring-opening 4, located above the grate and shownn as provided with@ door 5, that may be opened and closed. In the present instance the door 5 is shown as slidably mounted on suitable ways, so that it can be pushed to `one side to uncover the firing-opening. At the top of the shell there is located a water-heater having an inlet-pipe 6 and an outlet-pipe 7. This a main, and it constitutes, in eiiect, a permai nent fitting of the stove. As shown, it consists of a pipe connected with the base ofthe stove, as by a bracket 1 1, and provided with a. gas-cock 12 anda jet-producer 13.

14 is a shutter provided upon one side with a gas connection 15, shown to consist of al pipe, as of metal,l and upon the-other sid- Wlth a gas-burner 16, connected with t' e pipe 15 and carried by suitable supports as 17. The preponderance of w eight 1s in ftffor of the burner 16 as compared with the lionncction 15 for a purposeto be presently described.` The pipe 15 is shown as provided with an air-intake 18, having an opening or socket adapted to detachably receive the jetproducer 13, so that when assembled the parts constitute a Bunsen or air-mixing tube.

To arrange the stove for the consumption of gas, the firing-door 5 is removed-for example, by pnshing it to one side. The shutter is then so positioned that its burner 16 extends through the firing-opening, While its gas connection 15 is slipped over the end 13 of the gas connection 10. In this position the preponderance of weight of the burner 16 in respect tothe gas connection 1 5 serves to hold the shutter 14' is front oi the firing-opening and the other parts in the position described. Obviously this can be readily accomplished by one having comparatively little skill, because there is no necessity for the use of tools, and all that is required is to simply push the burner into the stove and pass the end of the gas connection 15-.over the end of the gas connection 1.3. Further- IOS EIO

'more, the presence of co'al or ashes in the'base of the stove would not interfere with the described operation, as the burner 16 occupies a position well above the same. Having arproperly manipulate t e cock 12, which causes a jet to be discharged into the mixing- Y tube 15, thereby drawingin air at the openings 19 and supplying the burner 16 with a roper mixture. -If there should occur any e'akage between the parts 18 and 13, no

- troduce-in this neighborhoo harm would be done, as the urpose is to ind) a supply of air t the gas. The byass 20 and its damper 21 may be em loyeci) for diverting some of the heat from t e water-heater in cases Where the latter would become too hot if the hot products were allowed to esca e from the top ofthe stove through the ofltalie 22.

When the stove is thus used for burning gas, it obviously affords means for heating water, still itself radiating comparatively little' heat. It therefore makes an excellent rticle for use in summer in connection with the use of gas cooking-stoves, because when located in the kitchenit does not tend to unduly heat the latter. To burn coal in the stove, all that is required is to lift the shutter 14, and with it the .connection 15, away from the stove, ,when thelatter is ready to be red with coallin the ordinary and well-understood manner, and when redfwith coal the stove is', still well adaptedfor use in connection with 4. stove 1s also useful 1n many other locahtles cooking means.

p. gas-stove, Vbecause it not only serves to heat' Water, but also to heat-.the apartment where it is locatedfor example, the kitchen in `winter-which would otherwise in many cases be very cold if it contained only the gas cooking -stove. Of course the described and either with or without other Iheating or a 1s an opening in the shutter shown as provided with a swmgin door, and 1t serves as a 'li hting-opening t -rough which a. taper 4ort e like may ber-inserted to light the gasburner.

' It will be obvious to those skilled in the art to which the invention relates that modification is not limited further than the tions may be-made in details without depart;v .I ing from the spirit thereof. Hence the invenprior state of the art may require; but,

Having thus described the nature and object of the invention, what l claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-- 1. A conve` tti ole hard-fuel and fluid burner comprising a stove-casing, a water-heater arranged at the top of said casing and consisting of a series of hollow Maltese-cross-shaped bodies internally provided with bafHelates, said casing having a firing-opening an grate arranged beneath the Water-heater and slideways mounted in proximity with said opening, a shutter carrying a burner and adapted to hang on said slideways, and a two-part gas connection whereof one part is attached to the stove and the other to the shutter, substantially as described.

2. A stove provided in the upper part of itsinterior with a water-heater and in the lower part of its interior with a fuel-sp ace, with a firing-openin arranged between the waterheater and fue -space, slideways mounted in proximity with said ri -opening a shutter rovided with a lateral y projecting gas- 'burner and arranged to hang in said shdeways, and a twoart gas connection whereof one part is 'carrie by the stove and the other by the shutter, substantially as described.

3. The combination of a stove provided with a' Grate and internally at its top with a `water -clieater and-with an oftake, a dampered by-pass from below the water-heater to the efftake, a firing openinv arranged beneath the water-heaterand above the gratespace, a shutter provided with a laterallyprojecting gas-burner and shiftable with reation to the iiring-opening, and a two-partgas connection whereof one. art is carried by the stove and the other byt e shutter, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto slgned my name.

' FRANK D. MOSES.

Witnesses:

' CHAs. G. COOK,

W. L. THOMPSON. 

